Progress of the Microphysics Remote Sensing of Atmospheric Clouds and Aerosols for Better Understanding the Earth’s Climate
Teruyuki Nakajima
JAXA/EORC
The last two decades was a great period of significant progress in
satellite remote sensing of the microphysical characteristics of clouds and aerosols.
NOAA AVHRR, EOS MODIS and ESSP CLOUDSAT&CALIPSO are among those
sensors that contributed to the progress. I like to overview the progress by
taking several useful microphysical parameters of the atmospheric particulate matter
for evaluating the magnitude of the direct and indirect climate effects of aerosols, of which estimate still has a large uncertainties. Combined use of climate models is also
important element to solve this difficult jigsaw puzzle. I will introduce
some effort of developing non-hydrostatic atmospheric models for simulating the
aerosol and cloud microphysical fields.
Tuesday, 11 August 2015, 3:30 PM
Refreshments 3:15 PM
NCAR-Foothills Laboratory
3450 Mitchell Lane
Bldg 2 Small Seminar (Rm1001)
Seminar will be webcast at http://www.fin.ucar.edu/it/mms/fl2-live.htm
EOL SEMINAR COORDINATORS: Steve Oncley and Stuart Beaton oncley@ucar.edu, beaton@ucar.edu https://www.eol.ucar.edu/workshops-seminars
